CHS grad to discuss cancer on Today this Thursday

On Thursday, Kathi Sheehy Hahn, a 1967 Columbia High School graduate who lives in Morgantown, W. Va., will appear with her daughter, Ashley Calvery, to discuss her two battles against cancer on NBC's "Today" on its its "Everyone Has a Story" segment.

http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/927395_Two-women-with-Lancaster-County-ties-to-discuss-cancer-on-TV-this-week.html

Columbia council cuts $5,000 to Market House Trust

http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/926522_Columbia-council-cuts--5-000-to-Market-House-Trust.html

Columbia Borough seeks applicants for volunteer positions

Columbia borough has multiple board and commission openings. There are seats available on the Shade Tree Commission, the Zoning Hearing Board, the Municipal Authority Board and the Historical Architectural Review Board.

Any interested Columbia Borough resident should send a letter of interest by Dec. 31 to the borough manager, Samuel F. Sulkosky, at Borough of Columbia, 308 Locust St., Columbia, PA 17512

http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/926029_Columbia-Borough-seeks-applicants-for-volunteer-positions.html

Inkmen artwork display on sale at Jonal Gallery

The exhibit Inkmen VI, An Inkmen Holiday is currently on display at Jonal Gallery. An open house will be held on Saturday, December 14 (10-5), and Sunday, December 15 (11-5).

What I saw recently

Poseidon (Neptune) at Toll Booth

Looking ripped and buff.

The statue was recently moved to the Walnut Street side of Burning Bridge Antiques.

  A banjo-playing skeleton at Trin's Beans on Locust

Doesn't anyone proofread anymore?

A skateboarder in the middle of traffic on Locust Street.
Yes, really.

Flowers at River Park

Maple leaf

Emergency personnel leaving River Park as an Amtrak train passes by

More autumn leaves

A-OK at 2nd and Cherry

A tree seemingly on fire at Locust Street Park

Filling in the pit next to Burning Bridge

Clouds aglow

The bridge at sunset

A hawk standing atop an old utility pole . . . because he can

What's this?  Another car into the river?  Fortunately, this one didn't go the whole way in.

Pickup truck parked at the bottom of Locust Street.

I guess the driver didn't see the NO PARKING sign right next to his truck.

Adjusting the Christmas lights at Holy Trinity Church

That's one way to get a free newspaper

Painting the clock tower

Just Married
Shortly after I took this photo, this driver buzzed through a red light at Prospect Road & 30.  Maybe he mistook his wedding for a funeral.

Civil War medical techniques shown at CHiPS

Robert Urban, a nationally recognized re-enactor of Civil War medical techniques, presented a lecture and demonstration at the Columbia Historic Preservation Society recently.

Urban, in full uniform, demonstrated such techniques as wound preparation and amputation at his makeshift field hospital during the two-hour event.  Considered one of the best medical re-enactors in the country, he is often called upon as an expert in the historical medical field for film and television.

Urban has a large library of Civil War era books as well as a collection of instruments he uses to demonstrate techniques on medical mannequins.

Human skull replica

Attending to wounds

Removing a bullet

Archaic medical instruments

More tools of the trade

A disturbingly life-like victim

Another patient at the field hospital

More era surgical instruments

A manual of surgical techniques

Urban discusses amputation

How to prepare a head wound

Autumn glory

A cell phone pic from about two weeks ago.